Thursday, February 7, 2013

Mariya Markina for Litkovskaya ss13 campaign.

One of the world's most in-demand models and Raf Simons’ favorite, Ukrainian top model Mariya Markina becomes the face of LITKOVSKAYA Spring-Summer 2013 collection.

'A love story staged in empty environment', was the work title for the shoot. Depicting anticipation of love, hunger for sensual contact and physicality -- the series explore an idea of emotional attachment and physical obsession with the very object of desire missing. The final result, shot by Cate Underwood and styled by Venya Brykalin, presents a mixture of clinical images staged in anonymous and desolate white space and stark black and white portraits, dynamic and savage. Combined together, they create atmosphere both ambivalent and sensually charged. There is a notion of suspense and certain physical tention to the pictures of Markina's character -- a girl longing for love that never happened.